The Walking Dead wakes from its brief dirt nap tonight, refreshed and ready to shower us with zombie guts. Celebrate with Daryl Dixon and this absurd portrait by Dena Jarrar, and chat about tonight's episode here. »10/13/13 6:00pm 10/13/13 6:00pm

Though cute and furry on the outside, North American red squirrels have the souls of warriors. Each adult will claim a small section of forest, and fiercely defend its territory against all others. And the most successful fighters owe it all to stressed-out mothers. »4/19/13 10:11am 4/19/13 10:11am

This is impressive. Watch what happens when a very flustered squirrel makes a daring leap for freedom through the kitchen window of what looks to be a fourth-story apartment. The brief clip, captured on video by Finn83, raises an interesting question: how does a squirrel survive such a fall? »9/26/12 3:20pm 9/26/12 3:20pm

Most squirrels couldn't be bothered to keep up with the latest fashions, but most squirrels weren't Tommy Tucker, the pet rodent whose outfits were immortalized in LIFE magazine. »6/09/12 9:00am 6/09/12 9:00am

When a squirrel encounters a rattlesnake in the wild, it does something very peculiar to survive its brush with the predator. That something is so peculiar, in fact, that we've had to build robot squirrels just to try to understand it. »4/04/12 12:35pm 4/04/12 12:35pm